Ever heard of Web 2.0?

No matter what sort of information you need, be it about a popular band of the 1940's or a map of your local area, the internet has it all. Ever since its creation, in 1989, its popularity has been increasing exponentially, up to the point where there's not a single city-dweller that's heard of it. Most have even heard of the expression "web 2.0", yet although it's quite commonly used, few know what it actually refers to.

Same as any computer software, the internet has had multiple versions. First used to store complicated formulas and useful data in a nuclear research center near Geneva, it's evolved and grown, becoming what is now known as web 1.0, or the first version of the WorldWideWeb. This was very different from the internet we know today, because it had a strictly commercial application. Although a few businesses became successful at the time, such as Amazon, e-commerce turned out not to be as appealing as was first hoped, so a new approach had to be found.

Web 2.0, the current phase of development, is a lot more personal than its predecessor, its active component being the average internet users, who use the online services provided. Though it has kept some similarities with its commercial forefather, web 2.0 boasts the use of blogs, personalized pages, live journals, video feeds and many other services which separate it from being one huge online shop. While web 1.0 was more of a "read only" environment, the customization features of web 2.0 make it "read/write", perfect for sharing data around the world.

A new term is shocking the online world though, namely web 3.0. Although it's still theoretical at the moment, it has made people wonder what it will be like. If web 2.0 is read/write, experts claim web 3.0 will be executable, acting like an independent operating system, yet this claim can't be verified until shortly before the virtual revolution is about to take place.


Thanks to Raul Pop, Born 1988, I have devoted my time to studying languages even as a toddler. The result of my work is a literature career that never started and a desire to perfect oneself that never ends. Although poetry is my first choice, having a collection of unpublished poems to account for that, I now write free articles for ArticleSet.com.